The Scheduled Tasks Manager is designed to give you a single location from which to monitor the patch scan , asset scan, power management, and patch deployment tasks currently scheduled on any of the machines in your network. Scheduled patch and asset scans will be displayed on the console machine, and scheduled power tasks and patch deployment tasks will be displayed on their respective target machines.
You can use the Scheduled Tasks Manager to modify and delete the scheduled tasks. For example, if you know a certain machine will be unavailable on a certain day you can reschedule any tasks that are set to be performed on that machine. The Scheduled Tasks Manager requires the VMware Scheduler to be installed and running on each managed machine. See Installing the VMware Scheduler for more details. The Scheduled Tasks Manager can be run even if the VMware vCenter Protect console is closed.
Note: The Scheduled Tasks Manager is different than Deployment Tracker. The Scheduled Tasks Manager enables you to monitor and modify scheduled scans , power, and deployment tasks, while Deployment Tracker only enables you to monitor active deployment tasks (and not scans or power tasks ).
You can access the Scheduled Tasks Manager the following ways:
Select Manage > Scheduled Tasks
Click 
on the toolbar
Select Start > All Programs > VMware vCenter Protect > Scheduled Tasks Manager
A dialog similar to the following will appear:
Note: If you recently upgraded to VMware vCenter Protect 8.x and are experiencing problems using the Scheduled Tasks Manager to communicate with your machines, it could be you need to install the latest version of the VMware Scheduler on your machines. See Installing the VMware Scheduler for details.
The Scheduled Tasks Manager dialog contains three distinct panes:
The left pane displays all the domains and machines currently residing in the managed machines database (accessible via the Manage > Items menu). The icon representing each machine changes depending on the state of the machine:
= VMware
Scheduler service available on the machine but no jobs currently scheduled
= VMware
Scheduler service available on the machine and one or more jobs are
currently scheduled
= VMware
Scheduler service not available on the machine
= Machine data is currently being
refreshed
You can also perform a number of actions by right-clicking on a domain or machine, as illustrated here:
The upper-right pane contains two tabs.
The Jobs tab contains a table that displays the jobs (if any) that are currently scheduled for the machine or domain selected in the left pane. You can sort this table a number of different ways simply by clicking the individual column headers. You can also perform a number of actions by right-clicking on a job, as illustrated here:
The Log tab contains a table that displays the available log files for the selected machine, providing a history of the jobs that have been performed on the machines. You can sort this table a number of different ways simply by clicking on an individual column header.
The Jobs tab contains a lower pane that displays detailed information about the job selected in the upper pane.